Language Bar, Res Warning And $oem$ Files

[thorazine]

Hi all:

This is my first post here so please forgive all the newbie-100-times-answered questions.

I'm trying to make my first unattended CD, this is a simple one for starters, just Windows XP SP0 + MUI Spanish Language. All went quite well for the first try, surprisingly well

Except for 2 small problems:

I added 2 directives to WINNT.SIF taken from Guide's Reference page:

[unattended]

KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

By setting your Keyboard Layout, this prevents the Language icon appearing on the taskbar when you've logged on. A full list of values can be found here.

[Display]

AutoConfirm=1

This will disable the really annoying box the appears upon first logon if the resolution wasn't properly set. It's the popup that says your current resolution isn't correct for Windows XP.

Well, these 2 didnt work as expected, I still get the language bar in the taskbar and a ballon informing me that my resolution is too small for XP (I used just 640x480 to be safer but I guess its too low...)

So what did I do wrong with those 2 settings? Do they work on Windows XP Gold or they need SP1 or SP2?

I suppose I could get rid of the balloon warning using a higher than 640x480 resolution (I'll try this now...) and I also found a few reg tweaks searching the forum to get rid of the language bar but I would like to do it with these WINNT.SIF options if possible instead if getting down to REG tweaks already.

The other problem I have is with installing MUI: well it didnt work

What I did was put the MUI folder inside

\I386\$OEM$\$1

and put this command on WINNT.SIF:

[GuiRunOnce]

%SystemDrive%\mui\muisetup.exe -i 0c0a -d 0411 -r -s"

However this didnt work, Windows couldnt find the files on that path, well the werent copied there in the first place. The question is, arent files placed on that \I386\$OEM$\$1 path copied to the installation root dir? Should the $OEM$ files be placed in the installation source dir?

I know the MUI can be installed using that CMDLINES.TXT method that is also found in this board (this I'm trying it as I write this), I just want to know why those files werent copied or why the GuiRunOnce command didnt find them.

[Alanoll]

$OEM$ must be in \$OEM$ not \I386\$OEM$

and OEMPreInstall=YES in WINNT.SIF